Words similar to rightful

Example sentences for: rightful

How can you use “rightful” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

We did not immediately call these crimes by their rightful name: genocide.
Nixon's spokeswoman, Mary Still, said the emergency order "was needed to keep the money in safekeeping, so it could be distributed to its rightful owners."
But, notes the NYT , there are still concerns: a government test has found that there are reliability problems, many due to limitations of battery life, and even if perfected, the technology would make no dent in gun suicide by rightful gun owners, or in the gun deaths lurking in the form of all the "dumb" guns already out there.
Keyes filed papers earlier this year demanding that Kansas return portions of the state to the rightful ownership of the Republic of Texas.
Pop had a way of putting what I thought of as catastrophes into their rightful context.